The Hunger Games

[Netjet!]

Originally Posted by Niala

Two:
From all people that work at a movie theater, stop.

Just stop.

Explain.

[Izzy]

It was alright. It could have been better imo. It was often really corny and predictable. I think it would have been better if they made it rated R and had it be a little more violent.

I couldn't really tell, but did that guy that was in charge of overseeing the game have to eat those berries at the end and kill himself?

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

I can't get myself excited to see it. Read the first book and had had enough. The author's writing style is way too bland for my tastes, and the whole thing felt like Battle Royale + Twilight the entire way through. Also, there were too many lame deaths. Overall, potential wasted.

Then again, who knows -- maybe I'd like the movie more, but I am skeptical.

This is pretty much how I feel. I read battle royale and that was way more creative at dragging you into the hellhole they had to go through. In the hunger games movie they kill off a few little kids in the first 30 seconds and kind of push it to the side like nothing happened. They could have really made all of it way more emotional and thought provoking. I want to be emerged into the world of the person right before they are killed off. The battle royale live action movie had the shittiest budget ever and it was still better at pulling me in.

[Niala]

Originally Posted by Netjet!

Explain.

I've found this crowd to be worse than the Twilight kids.

[Netjet!]

Originally Posted by Izzy

It was alright. It could have been better imo. It was often really corny and predictable. I think it would have been better if they made it rated R and had it be a little more violent.

I couldn't really tell, but did that guy that was in charge of overseeing the game have to eat those berries at the end and kill himself?

Spoilers :O

But yeah. he did.

Originally Posted by Niala

I've found this crowd to be worse than the Twilight kids.

Eh, it's hard to tell. They don't scream as much as Twi-hards did.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Niala

I've found this crowd to be worse than the Twilight kids.

What does that have to do with people working at a movie theater?

[TheNoSoMan]

After thinking this over, I'd rather wait until it comes out on dvd and just wait until May 4 to watch in theaters again.

Is the fanbase really that bad?

[Niala]

I suppose they're not worse, they're just equally as bad in a different way. At least with Twi-hards you could knock them off to just being 14 year old girls trying to live their ultimate love story through a one sided, protagonist written with so little personality that anybody could throw themselves onto it, supposing they wanted to. And at least they had the sense to realize not everybody gave a shit about their fantasies, or, at least, didn't want the guy giving out popcorn to know about them. With The Hunger Games, it seems like the fans are incredibly pretentious about how innovative and interesting the idea was, and they all seem to have the need to tell me their favourite part and blahblahblah like I'm supposed be just as interested about it as they are since, hey, The Hunger Games is for everybody, right?

/bitter

At least I can take solace in the hype about it being over in about two weeks, just like every other book-turned-movie.

Note I'm not really bashing the movie or the book or even the fans really, but working 16 hour days where 1298301938109 people go to see the movie makes me want to break a puppy over my knee.

[Netjet!]

Originally Posted by Niala

I suppose they're not worse, they're just equally as bad in a different way. At least with Twi-hards you could knock them off to just being 14 year old girls trying to live their ultimate love story through a one sided, protagonist written with so little personality that anybody could throw themselves onto it, supposing they wanted to. And at least they had the sense to realize not everybody gave a shit about their fantasies, or, at least, didn't want the guy giving out popcorn to know about them. With The Hunger Games, it seems like the fans are incredibly pretentious about how innovative and interesting the idea was, and they all seem to have the need to tell me their favourite part and blahblahblah like I'm supposed be just as interested about it as they are since, hey, The Hunger Games is for everybody, right?

/bitter

At least I can take solace in the hype about it being over in about two weeks, just like every other book-turned-movie.

They turned the movie into a Peeta vs. Gale thing like Twilight, and it surprised me that they didnt squeam about the gory games. Overall Twi-hards were more hardcore on the hype.

[bmah]

I suppose the Hunger Games fans are voraciously invading your concession stands and popcorn machines, that's why they're 100x worse

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Niala

Note I'm not really bashing the movie or the book or even the fans really, but working 16 hour days where 1298301938109 people go to see the movie makes me want to break a puppy over my knee.

Oh, I see what you are saying now. You are the one working at the theater. I used to work at a movie theater too, but it was before twilight style fanatics were around so it was generally pretty calm other than holidays. Weird that holidays are the busiest days of the year.

I still think we need a modern remake of battle royale with a high budget that is rated R. I heard a rumor that they were working on it, but it was suspended due to school shootings and was thought to be in bad taste.

[Niala]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Oh, I see what you are saying now. You are the one working at the theater. I used to work at a movie theater too, but it was before twilight style fanatics were around so it was generally pretty calm other than holidays. Weird that holidays are the busiest days of the year.

I still think we need a modern remake of battle royale with a high budget that is rated R. I heard a rumor that they were working on it, but it was suspended due to school shootings and was thought to be in bad taste.

Yes I do work at a movie theater, sorry, that mustn't have been as clear as I thought it was x3

As far as THG goes, we have about 2,500 people a day for it. The sheer amount of them is unnerving. I would like to see a remake for Battle Royale, though, that sounds interesting, as long as it retains the hilarious comedy in mistranslations. "Wow! I survived thanks to my great bullet-proof vest!" was my grad quote.

[Izzy]

It's funny that I had never even heard of the hunger games until last friday when the movie came out. I am kind of surprised it has such a huge following. The book is most likely better than the movie, but the plot/concept is mediocre and generic. While I was watching the movie I found it to be way to predictable. I feel like they didn't make the movie with the idea that is should be a standalone story apart from the book.

I'm sorry you have to work in a movie theater. Those are the worst places with the most annoying people.

[robertsona]

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i havent read the book but the only problems i had with the movie were things with cutting out information that maybe would have helped, but that's a problem all book-to-movie adaptations have and the movie was already really long. i was pretty enthralled the whole way so i assume they did a good job.

the two things really:

1) i sort of intuited the food-for-tribute system (wherein you put your name in for tribute in exchange for food) but that wasn't really clear

2) katniss and rue's relationship could've been...more. obviously it's not unreasonable but katniss' reaction to rue's death seemed a little over-the-top given that rue had like eight lines and five minutes of screentime. i mean this could be defended as rue being the loss of the only truly innocent character but still. oh also spoiler alert

there were probably a few other things i'm forgetting but it was awesome otherwise

[Mau5]

Pretty good movie, stupid ass crowd. So common nowadays.

[UserNameGoesHere]

Okay someone synopsis this for me. Spoiler tags if you have to. What is the general idea?

I hear this particular movie mentioned a lot. Give me a reason to watch it (or to avoid watching it).

I have a guess but there's a good chance it's wrong. In fact I hope it is wrong because if not, this movie would be several levels of lame. My guess

Everyone is a contestant on some "reality" show where they have to kill everyone else in order to advance and possibly win. Either that or the main "host" is some sort of madman or mad scientist who forces them to do the same but for his own amusement.

[SkRAWRk]

No, your guess is reasonably accurate and the movie is several levels of lame, don't worry about it.

If you haven't read the books or seen/read Battle Royale, you might find it okay, but I definitely wouldn't say it's as good as everyone thinks. Everyone I know that was hyped for it made it out to be really good, but everyone that wasn't and saw it just as a movie (or with limited knowledge of the books) thought it kinda sucked.

The books are better, imo, although they're not a great read. Like Rubix said, it's pretty much Battle Royale + Twilight. A bunch of kids fighting for their lives with a subtext of the vulnerable lead female protagonist torn between two male characters that are very nearly polar opposites. I'm disappointed that she didn't play the mental effects due to the killings up more, since she did mention and hint at it, but whatever. Plus the third book sucks ass. It's horribly boring. And she writes like this. A lot. With too many short sentences. It drags. And gets old quick.

But hey, other people will tell you differently, just my /2cents.

[UserNameGoesHere]

That just sounds like bad writing and bad fiction to me. It's seriously written that way?

Also just for kicks I just now wiki'd it. I was like "Please tell me she didn't get the idea from watching too much reality TV. Please tell me she didn't get the idea from watching too much reality TV. *crosses fingers*" .. reads on ... looks like she got the idea from watching too much reality TV. *facepalms*.

[SkRAWRk]

Yeah, her concept of using writing style to affect the reading experience is pretty much to just constantly use short sentences. It works to an extent by providing pace and mild suspense, but it drags and gets old quick. I mean, it's obviously not as bad as I portrayed it in my previous post, but there's no real complex sentences or anything.

And yup, iirc, it was a combination of watching reality TV and something akin to the whole Kony thing that's been flying around recently that she claimed as having given her the idea.

[TheNoSoMan]

ok I saw the movie like over a week ago and the story was nice. The biggest problem is the shaking camera. Can't make out some of the action.

[V-Ormix]

was not bad